Kai'Sa vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Kai'Sa
based on 2,573 Kai'Sa vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Azir
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Kai'Sa vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Kai'Sa versus Azir matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Azir
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Azir?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Azir, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Azir.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Azir.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Azir. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Azir build consist of Terminus, Stormsurge, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Azir than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Azir as Kai'Sa, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kai'Sa vs Azir LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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